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GENERAL MORNING PRAYER.

IN the name of our Redeemer we would thank Thee, Lord God Almighty, that Thou hast preserved our lives unto another day. In His name and for His sake we would earnestly beseech Thee to carry us through the same in cheerful obedience to Thy will. Leave us not for one moment to our own devices and desires, but teach us deeply to feel, and meekly to acknowledge, our iniquity. Let Thy Holy Spirit work in us an abiding conviction of our true state, and incline us to look ever to His cross, in whom alone is our health and our hope. Enable us to turn from every known error, and to abstain from every dangerous indulgence. Overrule us in all we think, and say, and do, to keep under our bodies, and follow what belongs unto our peace. Deliver us from all indolence and intemperance; from the deceitfulness of riches; from the snares of the world; and from all fleshly wisdom. Humble us entirely before Thy throne, and help our unbelief, that in continual prayer and heedful vigilance we seek from Thee our only strength, and hold in Thee our every purpose. Cleanse our hearts, and day by day renew within us a

right spirit, that we may honestly desire, and stedfastly endeavour, to amend our lives according to Thy word. Teach us to seek Thy righteousness in fervent faith and singleness of mind. Make us deeply and sincerely thankful to Thee for the many comforts and conveniences we are enjoying, for Thy great goodness to us and to all men; for the means of grace and the hope of glory. Throughout this day, keep steadily before us the certainty of death and judgment, so far as in Thee we may bear that awful truth. Enable each of us to conduct ourselves aright to every member of this household, and to every other person with whom we may have any intercourse. Give us grace to improve each passing hour, to discharge every present duty. Bless our friends and relations. According to Thy providence and mercy train us all up to love Thee. In sickness and in sorrow, in health and in prosperity, guard and protect us all in soul and body. Grant that we may indeed embrace and evermore hold fast the blessed hope of salvation in Jesus Christ, may truly live and die in Him, through whom all glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever. Amen.

GENERAL EVENING PRAYER.

LORD God Almighty! for the sake of Him who died on the cross to save sinners, have mercy upon us, forgive us all our sins, negligence, and ignorance, and grant us Thy Holy Spirit, that we truly repent them all. Enable us to consider wisely the actions and events of the day now past, and to call upon Thee with lowly, penitent, and obedient hearts, while it is yet now, the accepted time. Teach us the great love of our Redeemer for sinful man, and through Him thy gracious promises of pardon, and help, and mercy. Let not our hearts be hardened within us, but soften them and renew them after Thy law, that we meekly confess our offences against Thee and against our neighbour, in the stedfast purpose of amending our lives. Put away from us all impatience, perverseness, and ill-temper, all offensive sayings and uncharitable thoughts. Deliver us from pride and hypocrisy, from malice, hatred, and envy, from selfishness and discontent: and set each of us to the performance of our several duties with cheerfulness and zeal. Make us active and diligent in our earthly calling, and ever mindful of Thine honour and glory. Preserve us

from all undue anxiety about the things of this world, and grant us strength and wisdom to lay up for ourselves a treasure in heaven. May we upon all occasions do to others as we would they should do to us; and think and speak of others as we would they should think and speak of us. Work in us and work with us, that we entirely believe and substantially render our religion the main business of every day: and that in humble gratitude we leave under Thy continual providence every person we love and every pursuit we cherish. Make us earnestly thankful to Thee for Thy great goodness to us and to all men, for the means of grace and the hope of glory. Bless our friends and relations. Protect us all in soul and body this night, and of Thy mercy so conduct us through this life, that finally we partake Thy salvation in Jesus Christ. Amen.

SUNDAY MORNING.

Let us pray.

UNTO Thee, Lord God Almighty, would we offer up our thanks through Jesus Christ, that Thou hast brought us unto another Sabbath. In His name would we humbly beseech Thee to give us that due sense of all Thy mercies, that our hearts may ever be unfeignedly thankful; and that throughout this day and every other day it may please Thee to continue each of us on earth, we may earnestly desire Thy Spirit, and honestly endeavour to do Thy will. May that Holy Spirit fill us with contrition for our frequent and grievous offences against Thee, and deliver us from the bondage of sin, and work in us a lowly faith in Jesus Christ; so that our tempers may be softened to acknowledge and confess our utter unworthiness, and that we may look to the cross of Him who is the propitiation for our sins, and may humbly and entirely purpose availing ourselves of that assistance for which we cry out unto Thee. Let us not be wise in our own eyes, but walk in Thy fear and depart from evil. And forasmuch as of Thy great goodness Thou hast baptized us into Thy holy Church, grant that we may indeed die unto sin, and neglect not the promise of

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